Definition of Inventor

Inventor

One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.

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Contriver, Especially, Mechanical, New, One, Or, Out, Something, Who

Inventor Quotations

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Daniel Webster

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
Alex Chiu

I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Ray Kurzweil

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
Ray Kurzweil

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
David Antin

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
Paul Watzlawick

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
Kit Williams

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.
Billy Sheehan

Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
Oswald Spengler

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
Tom Scholz

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Scott Turow

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Inventor Translations

inventor in Dutch is uitvinder
inventor in French is forgeur
inventor in German is Erfinder
inventor in Italian is fabbricatore
inventor in Latin is inventor
inventor in Norwegian is oppfinner
inventor in Spanish is inventor
inventor in Swedish is uppfinnare

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